I covered an Anniversary Event at Husk Nashville, the guests included Husk Executives, Farmers that provide produce, meat and wine along with longtime guests.
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How important is it for the main subject of the photo to be shown directly interacting with some thing or some other person? The woman as the focal point of the image is doing neither. The man on the left takes up a large part of the photo, but serves no real purpose because she's not engaged with him. She appears to be looking past him, at who knows what. Which leaves the story incomplete. If it were tightly cropped to her face, the expression could be the story. But there are too many people in the image not connected to her expression.
The other three images from this event in your portfolio accomplish what I'm saying this one does not. In each of them, there's direct interaction between people or people and food. This image misses, what I think, is the key ingredient of event photography.
I agree. I think this image needs a tighter crop to represent an editorial image of the event. It's a shame the guy behind her is making somber face.
I want to include that straightening the image would also help, along with the crop and the guy with the face behind her, not deter from the story as well. Unless the story is to give us an uncomfortable feeling as well. Not every image needs to be straight, but this looks like a happy occasion and slightly off level disagrees with that happy feeling. Adds to the "incompleteness" of the photo.
He could do loads of editing, and let's be honest this image would not fetch more than an average of '2'. If I were delivering this image for a client, the smile on the face and the receiving of the drink really makes this picture, and especially if the person in the photo is close to the client, that would be huge bonus. I would personally attempt to make the guy behind her go away, and may not even reveal that I had done that...haha, that is if the software was good enough, and it should be. The photo is a little, bent, and in the rotation, you would automatically crop a wee bit. You want to get rid of that annoying bar on the right too, if possible.
Fully agree.
I assume this image is simply 1 of 500 delivered to a client from an event which a photographer was hired to cover. It's not a stand-out image and shouldn't have been submitted to this competition.